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3.7
Standard Setup
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The Standard Setup option is selected by choosing the "Standard" icon from the Setup section of the AMI
WinBIOS Setup main menu selection screen. The Standard Setup screen should be as follows:
Date / Time
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Select the Standard option. Select the Date and Time icon. The current values for each category are displayed. Enter
new values through the keyboard.
Floppy Drive A
Floppy Drive B
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Move the cursor to these fields and select the floppy type. The settings are 360 KB 5¼ inch, 1.2 MB 5¼ inch, 720
KB 3½ inch, 1.44 MB 3½ inch, or 2.88 MB 3½ inch.
Hard Disk C
Hard Disk D
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Select one of these hard disk drive icons to configure the drive named in the option. A scrollable screen that lists all
valid disk drive types is displayed. Select the correct type and press <Enter>. If the hard disk drive is an IDE drive,
select Detect C: or Detect D: from the Utility section of the WinBIOS Setup main menu to allow WinBIOS to
automatically detect the IDE drive parameters and report them on this screen. You may also enter the hard disk drive
parameters. The drive parameters are:
Parameter
Cylinders
Write Precompensation
Landing Zone
Type
The number for a drive with certain identification parameters.
The number of cylinders in the disk drive.
Heads
The number of heads.
The size of a sector gets progressively smaller as the track diameter diminishes. Yet
each sector must still hold 512 bytes. Write precompensation circuitry on the hard
disk compensates for the physical difference in sector size by boosting the write
current for sectors on inner tracks. This parameter is the track number where write
precompensation begins.
This number is the cylinder location where the heads will normally park when the
system is shut down.
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